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Festival fun at Daxtonbury this weekend…
Daxtonbury Festival of Music and Country Life Friday 12 – Sunday 14 July Airfield Road, Podington Everybody loves a good…
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On your marks……Bedford Running Festival returns…
Lace up your trainers as the Bedford Running Festival is back and it’s bigger than ever before, held at Priory…
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What’s On Highlights
Why Diets Don’t Work and other myths about food and health When? Thursday, July 18 2019 at 7:30PM What’s the talk…
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Festival fun at Daxtonbury this weekend…
Daxtonbury Festival of Music and Country Life Friday 12 – Sunday 14 July Airfield Road, Podington Everybody loves a good party and they don’t get much better than the three-day music event held each year in fields near Podington in the north of the county. Daxtonbury – named after promoter Dax Miller and some other…
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Music highlights this month
Music in the Meadows The free summer bandstand concerts are returning to Mill Meadows on the Embankment this July and August, every Sunday from 3 – 5pm. Everyone’s welcome to come along and bring the family – and a picnic – to enjoy two hours of traditional bandstand music in this lovely spot on the…
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Bringing the Bard to Bedford Park
Pack a picnic and enjoy fabulously funny outdoor theatre with; A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tuesday 16 July at 7.30pm, Pavilion at the Park Tickets: £18.50 (concessions £15.50 / family ticket: £59) The renowned Oddsocks Productions is bringing A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Bedford Park this summer for an outdoor adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy. Four young…
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What’s On Highlights
Why Diets Don’t Work and other myths about food and health When? Thursday, July 18 2019 at 7:30PM What’s the talk about? Despite a wealth of information at our fingertips there are still so many things we get wrong about our health, and with a new diet book out every other day it’s no wonder people…
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Clanger Culture Correspondents: The Carole King and James Taylor Story review
I was quite familiar with Carole King’s music following a period, a few years ago, when my husband played her music almost relentlessly. Until that point, I had no idea she was responsible for such an impressive back catalogue. I also have a vivid memory of stripping woodchip from our kitchen walls whilst listening to…
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Doctor in the house!
80s glam-pop-psych band, Dr and the Medics, come to Bedford Esquires on Friday 14th June, where they will be prescribing classic hits and new material including the perennial hit Spirit In The Sky. The Clanger’s Lloyd Lugsden got to talk to founder member and singer Clive Jackson about Top of the Pops and Rugeley Power…
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Panacea Museum: New exhibition telling the story of Dilys Barltrop
A new exhibition telling the story of Dilys Barltrop is now open in Bedford as part of the Panacea Museum‘s centenary commemorations. Dilys was the daughter of Mabel Barltrop, founder of the Panacea Society, who believed that she was Octavia, the daughter of God. Panacea Trust archivist, Vicki Manners, has put together this display with the…
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Baking up a new social enterprise
bake is a social enterprise set up to help people in the Kempston community to gain the skills they need to get back into work. Based at Project 229, the community project will give work experience to unemployed locals, taking referrals from various charities in Bedfordshire. “If you feel that your business would benefit from…
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Who is Bedford? New show for families explores cultural heritage of Bedford
Take part in an innovative new cultural experience this June with Who is Bedford? an interactive show exploring the heritage of Bedford and the people who live here. With over 50 ethnicities represented in the town, Bedford is one of the most culturally diverse towns of its size in the UK. Who is Bedford? is…
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The South to play Esquires
To celebrate their 10th anniversary and 30 years since the Beautiful South released ‘Song For Whoever’, 2019 sees The South playing shows up and down the UK. Featuring former Beautiful South singer, Alison Wheeler and lifelong sax player, Gaz Birtles, The South are an impressive 9 piece band, playing the band’s timeless songs live including…